Ramblings and Musings of the Insane, Philosophical Ladybug

You know, it's terrible. I cannot make my mind fully comprehend that Zoisite from Sailor Moon is a man. In the dub, Zoisite is a woman, but even in the original, Zoisite seems like one. **is purposely avoiding writing gender pronouns as she speaks about the character.** The character design, the behavior, the cherry blossom petals. . . . And yes, yes, I know Zoisite is gay in the original. XD; But I mean . . . Zoisite is not really built like a man, and the character design even includes longish eyelashes. And the voice doesn't sound terribly masculine, even though I'm pretty sure it is a man doing the voice in the original. I'm afraid I'll always think of Zoisite as a woman, at least where the anime's concerned. I don't know whether this is how I'd feel if I'd watched the Japanese from the start or not. But . . . I kinda wouldn't be surprised. I dunno, being a woman actually seems to suit anime Zoisite pretty well. **thinks of how vengeful Zoisite got toward Neflyte.** Hell hath no fury and all that.... Not that Neflyte scorned Zoisite in *that* way (not at all!), but I guess Zoisite did feel scorned when Neflyte was assigned to get the Silver Crystal when that had been Zoisite's assignment.

I finished Candy Clouds! ^^ It ended a bit different than even I was expecting, but it's still leading up to what I have planned for the final part of the trilogy, Purple Skies. It seems unreal that Candy Clouds is finally over. I'm not sure I fully believe it yet. It took me a year and a half to do that one. XD

Hamda told me about her favorite Detective Conan episodes, which are 34 and 35, the two-parter about the sadistic bandaged killer at large. I went and watched them on YouTube, and I got inspired to do another story. XD Now I wanna see how Gin and Vodka would react in such a situation. I dunno, I really don't think even Gin would be so sadistic as to chop up bodies like that. He seems to like to shoot to kill and be done with it.

And now, an opening blurb:


( And Then There Were Eight )

It looks like this will be the last night spent in this house where there's some sense of normalicy. My brother's coming over tomorrow and helping us move out the big stuff, so it's going to be a big and busy day. I'll try to get the computer set up as soon as possible, as well as the TV/VCR/DVD player. XD I'll put up the computer before I do anything else in my room.

And I must say, I adore The Devil and Peter Tork! Doing a Faust-type episode was a stroke of brilliance, and the Monkees pulled it off without going OOC. I think that episode had just the right amount of drama to keep the show IC, and I love the part where they call the Devil to the witness stand and Davy asks him to raise his right hand and lay his left hand on the Bible. The Devil's response? "You must be joking." Maybe I'll watch it again tonight. XD

The best season 2 episodes seem to be the ones that were left over from season 1. The Devil and Peter Tork is one of those, and there's nine others, I think. The Monkees Blow Their Minds is another, and It's a Nice Place to Visit, which, BTW, was another stroke of Monkee brilliance. XD They got in trouble in Mexico because Davy fell in love with a local bandit's girlfriend, so the bandits kidnapped him and the other three Monkees disguised themselves as bandits to come rescue him. Then, after their ruse was discovered, the lead bandit challenged Micky to a duel. LOL.

... I think the way you can tell if a season 2 episode is left over from season 1 is that Micky's hair will be wavyish and fluffy instead of curly. XD

I finally finished chapter 10 of Candy Clouds. I'm very proud of it. ^^ Hopefully I'll get a chance to work on chapter 11 before too long. Getting everything moved in will take a lot of time, though I do plan to find time to talk to people. ^^ And I need to find out the dimensions of my Doom poster so I can frame it. XD I also bought a B&W Monkees picture off eBay to hang up.

I now have chapter eight of Candy Clouds finished. ^^ I'm quite pleased with it. There's a conversation between two of the villians, which isn't something I usually do, and Valon's frustrated because he's all mixed up. I decided not to have him end up completely brainwashed, as originally planned. Instead he's really confused and is having trouble sorting out what's real and what's not.

And we've almost seen all of season 2 of the X-Files now. ^^ Overall, I like season 1 better, but my current favorite episode, One Breath, is from season 2. It was so awesome. XD It played out like one of my stories. So much hurt/comfort, and supernaturalness, and friendship cuteness....

Let's see. . . . If I were to pick my favorite episodes so far, they would probably be:

-The Pilot
-Shadows (Haunted?)
-Beyond the Sea
-The Erlenmeyer Flask
-One Breath

Annnd something else that I'm forgetting. XD;

One thing I absolutely adore about the X-Files is that it has heart, and meaningful characters. Over time you really get attached to those characters. I think Chris Carter was pretty arrogant to think that the X-Files could just go on and be a smash-hit no matter who was starring in it. The show finally failed after nine seasons because of changes in the main cast. It seemed like it ended on a rather depressing note, too, from what I've heard.

I do have a question, though: Who on the writing team is the big Scully h/c fan? XD She has gotten into so much trouble in season 2. It seems like they can't get enough of putting her in danger. Does that continue into other seasons as well? It seems to me that the situations should be spread evenly between her and Mulder. Maybe there were lots of incidents of Scully in danger from season 1 as well, but it didn't seem as noticeable. XD; After her abduction experience in season 2, it seems that having her get into more trouble almost immediately is overkill.

And another question: What were the writers on when they wrote some of those? XD The last episode we saw last night was the one where they were on the ship stuck in the "time warp." That episode was definitely WTH material. And I don't even get how the doctors got them back to normal! Nothing made sense in that one. -.-; Oh how I despise things where people are forced unnaturally into something like aging.

Just when I thought people couldn't get any more stupid....


( Mistaken Identity )


There's more to the article, but I dunno if I should put up the whole thing. XD; It's from CompuServe News, so I can't link it up either. But OY. Just OY. As the policeman said at the end of the article, "Four people were going to lose their lives over some cheese." .__. And the woman even said that if there were any kids old enough to testify in the house, they would have to be killed. Can you imagine such sheer idiocy? **flicks the woman.** Woman, what a laugh. More like an immature child. No wait. That's an insult to the child. -.-;

In other news, I finally have a song for chapter five of Candy Clouds and I started writing it! The lucky winner is The Mummers' Dance by Lorena McKennit. (Did I spell that right?)

I also made this icon, inspired by a conversation with Lisa. XD

And we watched The Towering Inferno, which is one of the most gripping, intense, and heartrending movies I've seen. It's right up there with The Poseidon Adventure and The Day After Tomorrow. It reminded me of a similar story idea I had a few months back. I didn't do anything with it because I wasn't sure how it would be received, but now I'm starting to consider writing it.

I've been pondering over why Grand Prix and the manga Dungeon Dice arc appeal to me so much. I think one reason may be that the antagonists didn't have any magic to fight with and so they instead fought with technology and games, which is more plausible in real life. As much as I love the supernatural stuff, I like a little break from it now and then. XD; And I like how they show that even those fighting without magic can be formidable opponents. Plus, the overall feeling of the arcs kinda reminds me of how the RPs on that forum are. ^^

I finally got chapter 4 of Candy Clouds done! I'm proud of it. I inserted some little references to Norse mythology and such. When I was collecting names for Paper Flowers, I looked though these old cards I have from a game called Wyvern. It seems to be a mixture of mythological and fairy tale type things from all different cultures, so I picked out lots of the various names to use. Actually, I don't think it was originally in Paper Flowers, but in the Sonic the Hedgehog story that used the Geates' Talisman thing first. Then, when I wanted something for Paper Flowers, I decided to draw on the legends and characters that I'd already created before.

I have this strong urge to go write a blurb that I thought up a couple of weeks ago and which has come back to bug me again. XD;

EDIT, 5 HOURS LATER: I present a blurb! I'm surprised I actually managed to write all this in one sitting. I think I got the idea for it from watching the last episodes of Noa's Arc last week. **tries to refrain from writing K instead of C.**


( Escape )

BTW, when addressing Siegfried, is one supposed to say "Mr. Von Schroider" or just "Mr. Schroider"? I've always been puzzled over that. XD; **looks in Darcy's general direction for an answer.**

I had a great weekend. And now I'm all fired up and ready to face the week! I feel like I've been recharged. And I'm highly confident that my Alister plushie will arrive in the next day or two. **virtually cuddles it.** It's so cute! I adore it! They already have the picture up on the website. ^^ http://www.fortunecity.com/business/johns/1394 Click Jupiter once you're on the main page. From there, you'll find the plushies. They also have Valon now. ^^

I also had a very strange dream about me being at the Orichalcos temple, only it was a house and I was a random fangirl. XD; I spied on the bikers as they left and then got chased around the place by Dartz. O__o;;;

It's hard to know exactly what I think of Dartz. . . . I don't hate him by any means, but what he did to the bikers was atrocious and abominable. However, if he was really ( Spoiler )

I do know one thing for sure: thanks to playing Enya's music on the piano, I now have new plot twists for Candy Clouds! Dartz will be in it and he'll be more or less a schizophreniac. o.o; ( Spoiler ) He'll be working with some of the rebels, probably, but he'll also be wanting to help the good guys. It will be really intense and interesting.

And here's a blurb I wrote over the weekend, based on a couple of RP scenes with Aubrie. XD;


( Vertigo )

Ho hum. . . . So tired. . . . I fell asleep on the bed earlier and didn't hear Dad calling me to come in for prayer. XD; I don't think I'll stay online very long. . . . We're planning to definitely go out somewhere later today. ^^ Maybe I'll find something cool to buy. I have a coupon for Borders. And I wanna go to Media Play, but I'd settle for Best Buy. They have a great anime selection.

We've been playing the Anime Letter game at Indepth Anime. ^^ I always enjoy that. Sometimes my brain goes out the window when I get assigned a letter, though, and I can't for the life of me think of a good character to do. Then later it's like DUH! In your face! and I'm like . . . I can't believe I didn't think of that. . . . XD; That's like when I got assigned O and I couldn't come up with anything until it hit me that I could do Odion. That never occured to me because I call him Rishid (though I have nothing against the name Odion).

I can't believe it now happened again, twice, in rapid succession. o__o; I was assigned the letter R, but I had R last time, so I thought that maybe R should be given to someone else. Only I must admit that if I'd really been thinking, I would have clung to that R. LOL. In the next round I have been given V. I looked at that blankly for a minute and was like, Okay . . . V . . . Vivian Wong (who I know nothing about. Heh)? Then it's like HELLO! You can do Valon! I am so absentminded sometimes it's disgusting.

I suggested a new topic for Indepth Anime for when the next round finishes up: Which character in all of anime do you consider the most complex? If that idea is accepted, then I already know exactly which character I'd write about. ^^ I think Raphael is the most complex character from YGO, and indeed, from any anime show I've seen. =3 **cuddles him.** I love that guy.

I hope I'm not falling into another writing slump. . . . The mystery fic has been progressing very slowly and it's even worse with Candy Clouds. Then there's a one-shot that's going nowhere. XD; So frustrating. . . .

Crimes for Christmas is finished! And the girl who was being rude apologized. XD; I'm really proud of the end result of this fic. But now I can't decide whether to write chapter 2 of Candy Clouds, begin the next mystery fic, or if I should just rest for the morning and continue reading old RPs. I've been reading ones with Aubrie, mainly the amnesiac Alister arc. XD; I loved that.

We went out earlier today to visit my brother and his wife and their son. He's just over a year old now and so cute! ^^ He's started to walk without grabbing onto people and things for assistance. And he liked the buttons on my coat. XD

Afterwards I went to Big Lots to get my tapes. Weirdly, they're selling them without wrappers at the moment. O__o But of course I bought them anyway. I must have them to record the rest of Doom Orichalcos arc! (And everything that comes after that, of course.) And they had Sonic X figures there! ^__^ I was able to get Knuckles as a belated Valentine's Day present. XD I always wanted Sonic figures and never could figure out why I couldn't ever find them. Then, when they did the Sonic Adventure figures, I tried to get Knuckles and had the KB people put one on hold for me. But then when I went in to get it, it somehow wasn't there. O__o It was all very strange. **pats new Knuckles figure.** I want to go back to Big Lots soon and get Sonic and Tails. The other characters they've released now are Big the Cat and Eggman (neither of whom I've very interested in, though I am one of the few people who actually likes Big). I wonder why they didn't make Amy Rose and Rouge. . . .

When we got back, I got to RP with Aubrie and SK. ^^ With Aubrie there was both intense and amusing stuff with Yaminah and Runihura. XD With SK we were continuing something similar to my Evil Experiment fic, only this time Portman got Valon. It was sad. ;__; Aww. But Alister and Raphael came to save him! ^O^ Cuteness! **cuddles the cuteness.**

And I am starting to get a bit concerned about someone. . . . She vanished right in the middle of something we were doing and I haven't seen her anywhere since---not on MSN, Yahoo, or here. That was a couple of days ago now. Maybe her network card thing fell out too, since that's what happened to JP when he vanished that same way. XD;

Blah. . . . **stretches.** For the last few days I haven't stayed on in the mornings as long as I have been doing. But that's because I'm getting restless and wanting to watch stuff. XD; Really, the only time I have when I can watch things in peace is in the early morning hours like this. And sometimes I really get tired of not watching anything because I'm staying on for hours in the morning. It's true that sometimes I'd prefer to stay online for whatever reasons---wanting to talk to people or wanting to get a chapter or a story done---but other times I just wanna get off before all of the early morning is gone. XD;

Choose a band/artist and answer only in song TITLES by that band/artist: The Monkees
Are you male/female: The Girl That I Knew Somewhere

Describe yourself: I'm a Believer

How do some people feel about you: Daydream Believer

How do you feel about yourself: Sweet Young Thing

Describe where you want to be: The Last Train to Clarksville

Describe where you are: Circle Sky

Describe how you live: Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day

Describe how you love: I Wanna Be Free

Describe how you feel: It's My Life

Share a few words of wisdom: That Was Then, This is Now


Hey, that was fun. XD I was going to use Evanescence, but I got stumped on the first question, since I can't think of any song where they have a feminine pronoun in the title.

How do you like my poor, angsty, unconscious Alister icon? I made this one myself, using a couple of lines from Somewhere I Belong, which is one of the ultimate biker songs. X3

I've seen the fourth, first, and fifth Star Trek movies now. XD Mom likes the fourth one the best. It's the one about the whales. I liked it okay, but it somehow just didn't seem as deep as the others. Also, with the fourth movie, they cranked the swearing up a notch, and then cranked it a couple more for the fifth movie. XD; But I really enjoyed the depth of the fifth movie. It dealt basically with how easily one can be deceived by the Devil. Very, very interesting. And oh! I must paraphrase some awesome dialogue near the end:

Kirk: I lost a brother once . . . but I got him back again.

McCoy: I thought you said that people like us didn't have families.

Kirk: Well . . . I was wrong.

**SQUEAL!** Kirk was referring to Spock. I adore the friendship cuteness content of those Star Trek movies. XD I wonder if the original TV show had it a lot. . . . And there were other kewl parts, too, like where, when Kirk was getting frustrated over certain events and snapping at Spock, McCoy was the one who stood up for him. McCoy's the doctor guy who is always arguing with Spock. XD I love their friendship too.

Oh yeah, and I liked the first movie too, but it confused me in some places. I think the original TV show must have had an official farewell episode or something, so it would all make sense in the first movie. The first movie's big emphasis was on how logic and knowledge aren't enough and that emotions and loved ones help make people complete. ^___^ **cuddles it.**

And I saw a really awesome movie a little while ago! It was called Beyond Tomorrow and it's really old. Black and white old. XD; But it was so good! It was about these three men who died in an airplane crash and their spirits come back to help their loved ones. =3 It was really great. I bet that there's lots of little-known movie gems like that.

Oh! I finally got the first chapter of Candy Clouds up. I'm so proud! It was kicking around on the computer since September until I got this recent burst of plot inspiration. XD;

And WOW. I was online much too long earlier. **smiles.** But I was having such a grand old time with my RPs that I hated to get off. I was doing a really long and fun one with someone I haven't talked to in ages. And dang, she plays a good Valon! I was amazed. XD I've been very happy to talk to her again and to do an RP with the bikers, as I'd been wanting to do.

The RP with Aubrie was really good too. **nodnod.** It went on for only about an hour or so less than the longest one did. (Well, of course that person was gone for about two hours while I was on, so it wasn't as if we were RPing straight through from when I came on to when I got off.) Alister and Valon were both mind-controlled and were dueling each other (though we didn't play out the full duel, of course). In the end, Alister was chained like Mai was at the end of her duel with Yami M and Valon was calling out the final attack, but he broke free of the control and ran and took the blast for Alister. Awww. Then it seemed as if both of them had been killed, but then Alister woke up and Valon did too, a bit later. ^^ Raphael and Aubrie's OC, Tazi, were both relieved. ^___^ So was Liu, the cat. 'Twas cuteness!